Chapter 385
Fang Ming answered with a smile.
Kanon blinked in surprise. "So your sisters really trust me, and aren't afraid I'm a bad person?"
"How bad can someone who likes children be?" Fang Ming said casually, then smiled at Kanon.
"Besides, how could someone with the potential to become Magical Girls be a bad person?"
"?"
Fang Ming's words stunned Wu Huayin.
She looked at Fang Ming with a puzzled expression and asked in confusion:
"Magical Girls...? Little brother, what are you talking about? What Magical Girls potential?"
Wu Huayin was completely confused and didn't quite understand what Fang Ming was talking about.
She turned her head left and right, looking around to see if there were any hidden cameras.
She wondered if this was some kind of prank show, since the Eastern Ocean District always seemed to hold these kinds of events, deliberately doing strange and unusual things to observe the reactions of passersby.
But after searching for a while, Kanon couldn't find the camera. Instead, her attention was drawn to Fang Ming's words.
"Ah, sorry, I forgot I haven't introduced myself yet." Fang Ming's smile faded slightly, and he said to Wu Huayin very seriously:
"Miss Wu Huayin, let's get to know each other again. My name is Fang Ming, and I'm from Central Continent District."
"Fang Ming... ah, that's the same name as my cousin in the movie 'Sky Screen'."
Upon hearing Fang Ming's name, Kanon immediately thought of the 'celebrity' on the Sky Screen, but she didn't connect Fang Ming on the Sky Screen with the little child sitting in front of her.
After all, Fang Ming in the Sky Screen was an adult, while the child in front of him, who looked to be only in the third or fourth grade of elementary school, could not possibly be the tall and handsome cousin in the Sky Screen.
Wu Huayin's thoughts are perfectly normal.
Fang Ming then introduced himself again:
"No, it's the same. I am Fang Ming, that's right, the cousin from the Sky Screen."
"?"
Wu Huayin was stunned.
A dry introduction wouldn't convince anyone of Fang Ming's identity, so Fang Ming simply snapped his fingers.
Snap--
Magic Barrier suddenly unfolded, changing the environment inside the café. In the blink of an eye, Wu Huayin and Fang Ming appeared inside the Magic Barrier.
Sensing the changes in her surroundings, Wu Huayin suddenly stood up and looked around.
She rubbed her eyes hard to make sure it wasn't a dream before turning her head again to look at Fang Ming sitting opposite her.
"Well, Miss Kanon, do you believe me now?"
Fang Ming propped his head up with one hand and smiled at Kanon.
But to Fang Ming's surprise, Kanon suddenly pointed a finger at Fang Ming and said:
"Magical Girls's ability?! As expected, you're just Xiao Bai!!"
"?"
Holy crap! Box!!
Fang Ming, who originally planned to turn Kanon into Magical Girls, had his thoughts disrupted by Kanon's words.
He stared blankly at Kanon, looking completely bewildered.
Dude, your train of thought is jumping around way too much! One second you were doubting whether I was Fang Ming, and the next second after I showed you my Magic Barrier, you opened my box?!
Are you polite?
Fang Ming stared blankly at Kanon.
Kanon excitedly leaned closer and said, "So you really are Fang Ming? How did you shrink? By the way, how did you become Magical Girls? Can you transform into Xiao Bai and show me? Oh, right!"
Kanon rummaged through her bag, and after a short while, she pulled out a notebook and a pen, which she respectfully handed to Fang Ming, saying:
"I'm your fan! Not just Xiao Bai, but Fang Ming too! So please give me your autograph!!!"
"..."
Kanon's fanatical behavior startled Fang Ming a little.
She was so quiet and scholarly before, how did she suddenly turn into a fangirl after revealing her identity?
Did I... did I really not misjudge him?
Looking at the notebook and pen handed to him, Fang Ming fell into deep thought for a moment.
A few minutes later.
Once they had calmed down, the two emerged from the Magic Barrier and returned to the café to continue their conversation.
After a brief conversation, Fang Ming understood what was going on regarding Wu Huayin's reaction.
When facing outsiders, Wu Huayin is indeed very quiet. Rather, it would be more accurate to say that she is quiet no matter who she is with. She is a typical Yamato Nadeshiko type of girl unique to the Eastern Ocean District.
She only shows her passionate side when it comes to things she likes.
Just like the performance just now.
As for why Kanon was able to guess that Fang Ming was Xiao Bai...
"I've had this suspicion for a long time." Kanon took out her laptop, opened the discussion group on the Magical Girl Website, then opened her personal profile and pointed to the post:
"I posted all of these posts."
Fang Ming leaned over and took a look.
<Regarding Xiao Bai's true identity><Speculation on the relationship between Xiao Bai and Fang Ming><On the origin of Magical Girls><Are Magical Girls limited to women?>...
These discussion threads are all very popular and each one is a high-quality post.
In terms of timing, Wu Huayin had been paying attention to this additional Magical Girls ever since Xiao Bai first appeared.
The post about Xiao Bai's true identity was published after the fourth episode of the first season. At that time, Wu Huayin suspected that Xiao Bai must be an acquaintance of Xiao Qiu and the others.
In the second season, with the spin-off and theatrical version airing one after another, Wu Huayin gradually focused her attention on Fang Ming.
Therefore, she was one of the earliest people to suspect that Fang Ming was Xiao Bai, and may even have been the leader.
"Well... you... you're really something..."
Looking at the posts in the backend, Fang Ming sighed.
Kanon smiled sheepishly, "Because I'm also a novelist, so... my thoughts tend to wander a little."
Your thinking is getting a bit too far off...
Fang Ming sighed inwardly.
It's amazing that they were able to guess the possibility of men becoming Magical Girls, even when there was absolutely no precedent for it.
That's really impressive.
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However, thinking about this Fang Ming feel somewhat melancholy.
Even a passerby like Wu Huayin could guess Fang Ming's identity; it's probably only a matter of time before Xiao Qiu and the others find out.
But that's not important.
Fang Ming composed himself, neither explaining his identity nor saying anything more.
After revealing his identity to Wu Huayin, Fang Ming took out a black cell phone and placed it in front of Wu Huayin.
"Ahem, enough chit-chat. I've come to see you today to give you this."
"This is...?"
"You should remember Aurora's transformation phone, right?" Fang Ming looked at Kanon, pushed the phone towards her, took a sip of his coffee, and continued:
"This phone is the same model as that one. You can use it to transform into Magical Girls... Well, of course, whether you want to become Magical Girls or not is up to you. I'm just responsible for giving you the device."
Upon meeting these Magical Girls, Kelly had already discerned the Emotional Force that matched theirs.
Therefore, that very night, Kelly separated a portion of her Emotional Force and attached it to these phones.
However, since these Emotional Force have not been activated and the mainframe where Kelly is located is still there, if the girls in the Eastern Ocean District do not want to be Magical Girls and leave their Emotional Force aside, then these Emotional Force will return to Kelly's side before long.
Kelly in the Sky Screen has not yet withdrawn her Emotional Force because the original host has disappeared, Emotional Force cannot find its way home, which is why Kelly has not been able to retrieve it.
The physical 'host' is still there.
After the initial excitement of meeting her idol subsided, Kanon vaguely recalled that Fang Ming's purpose in coming to her was to make her Magical Girls.
As her reason gradually returned, Kanon's eyes widened.
Instead of picking up her phone, she pointed to herself with an incredulous look on her face.
"I... I can become Magical Girls...?!"
"What, you're only realizing this now?" Fang Ming joked with a smile. "I'm not lying to you, otherwise I wouldn't have revealed my identity to you."
Calling someone "sister" all day while still a child would be embarrassing even for Fang Ming himself, so if he wasn't certain that Kanon truly had the potential to become Magical Girls, why would Fang Ming have revealed his identity to her?
Wu Huayin had come to understand this, but she still couldn't quite believe it.
How could someone as ordinary and unremarkable as myself, a writer who's only slightly famous locally, become Magical Girls?
Wu Huayin had never even considered this kind of thing before!
"This..."
She looked down at the blue phone that had been pushed in front of her, unsure of what to do.
Fang Ming ignored all of that and stood up, saying:
"I'm handing this over to you. If you don't want to become Magical Girls, just ignore it."
"Three days. The magic stored here only lasts for three days. If you don't activate it after that time, it will disappear on its own, so..."
Fang Ming gave Kanon one last, deep look. "You need to think this through carefully, Miss Kanon."
While Wu Huayin was still in a daze, Fang Ming decisively paid the bill and left.
Wu Huayin is currently in a daze because of the Magical Girls incident, and her thoughts are in a mess. She can't recall the time when Fang Ming pretended to be young and called her "sister".
Once Wu Huayin has sorted out her thoughts and remembers this incident, Fang Ming will have lost all face!
Fang Ming, a grown man and an elder of the Magical Girls, who had always cultivated a "reliable" and "mature" persona in the Sky Screen, could call a strange girl "older sister" without any psychological burden after turning into a child.
This is a matter that's both easy to say and hard to hear!
I'd better slip away before Wu Huayin things out. As for whether Wu Huayin will bring this up when we meet again...
As I said before, let the future Fang Ming handle the future!
Fang Ming has to rush off to do his next task!
Xilisi was taken by Stella to the coastline of the Eastern Ocean District.
Stella, who brought her here, abandoned her here and then vanished without a trace, disappearing to who-knows-where.
Only Xilisi remained, staring blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings.
She didn't know why Stella had sent her here, and she didn't dare to ask. After all, among all the Magical Girls, only Xilisi was the most ordinary one.
She's neither Magical Girls nor Witch, and she doesn't have her cousin's fighting prowess; she's just a girl with a few supernatural powers.
Because of this, Xilisi actually felt somewhat inferior.
She felt unworthy to be with the Magical Girls because she had neither the determination nor the qualifications to become Magical Girls.
Many times, Xilisi wanted to leave the group of Magical Girls, but each time Aurora would pull her back.
Over time, Xilisi stopped mentioning leaving and instead stayed by the side of the Magical Girls, quietly remaining a nobody.
Xilisi didn't know how much longer she would have to stay with the Magical Girls; she just felt that since Aurora and the Magical Girls wanted her to stay, then she would stay.
Despite this, Xilisi doesn't have much of a strong opinion among Magical Girls.